MEXICO CITY, July 18 (NNN-EFE) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has described the Texas government’s new border barriers as “advertising” and “very vulgar”, putting up a barbed wire fence and a bush barrier at Rio Grande, on the border between the two countries, to prevent migrants from crossing.
“Just tell our fellow citizens not to vote for the governor of Texas (Greg Abbott) or the Republican lawmakers who support these measures, which are, by the way, very vulgar publicity stunts,” the president said at a morning news conference.
The Mexican president claimed that the actions of the Texas governor are “deceiving the American people, the Texans, that they are very strict and intend to prevent the arrival of migrants who bring or bring drugs to the United States.”
He noted that this is “a pure story, a pure lie.”
Last May, just days after the immigration measure known as Title 42 passed, the governor of Texas announced the deployment of giant spherical orange buoys to build a floating barrier on the Rio Grande.
That’s on the back of an argument for beefing up security on the border with Mexico, which has included busloads of migrants to Democratic-controlled US states and allowing the National Guard to make arrests.
López Obrador commented that everything they do is “political” because even the billboards they put up are orange “to make it look like that”.
Likewise, he minimized the bush-covered extension because, he said, they occupy “300 meters,” but Mexico’s border with the United States is more than 3,000 kilometers.
“Hurry up, because it is 3180 kilometers (border), they will take you there. Nothing but Texas, how much does Texas have? It must be about 1,000 kilometers, if not more, from the border with Mexico. When is the governor going to finish putting buoys in the Rio Grande or the Rio Grande?” – he asked.
Regarding the alienation that the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) sent to the United States last Friday to install the buoys, in which it argued that it violates the water treaty between the two countries, López Obrador said that he did not accept it. “Very seriously.” serious”.
“Because this is a politician and we shouldn’t talk here either. There are things that should be reported, but in Texas there have been no complaints about mistreatment of our fellow citizens, what we care about is publicity, politicking, it is for political picaresque, but it is not to be taken seriously,” he emphasized.
The Texas government has ordered the build-up of barriers in parts of the Rio Grande, the U.S.-Mexican boundary river, including a fence of spiral razor wire and a string of giant buoys designed to make it impossible to cross the river.
Mexico has since June 26 been requesting the United States to remove the barriers from the Rio Grande. — NNN-EFE
